Shorten the Preseason
Every year I write this and I’m getting really sick of it. SHRINK or GET RID OF THE PRESEASON.
In college football you just practice against your own team and then the games begin. No practice games at all, just practice and then the games. But for professional players making millions of dollars a year apparently they need 4 full weeks of practice games to get them ready for a 16 week season? Makes no sense to me until you start to equate the money into the whole deal.
Pro football players aren’t paid for the preseason games technically but get paid for each game that is actually played for which they are on the roster. The preseason is a different story and it is no wonder that the best guys simply don’t play as much because their is just too much to lose by playing your best guys. Now I hear that an 18 game schedule is pretty much a done deal and I get even more amazed.
Sure the 18 game schedule will take away a couple preseason games but now that makes football season nearly 6 months. That’s a long time and while I love it I don’t love what it does to the history of the game. Imagine being a baseball player who held records based on the 154 game season only to have them broken by someone because they got to play in 8 more games a year. That would drive me crazy and now that is what football is about to do. We are messing with the history of the game and not in a good way. Rushing records will be broken, passing records, sack records…everything will be broken as a result. Let’s even look at the flip side…more injuries, even shorter careers (only at 2.5 as it is) and teams that are out of the playoffs by mid season now have to get hammered for an additional 2 weeks.
I wish they would just keep it as is but take away the preseason. Let teams practice for an additional 2 weeks to get ready but start the games and save some careers.
